Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Sepia Saturday 92 : Saturday 17 September 2011

My theme picture this week comes from a new collection of archive photographs from the National Library of Ireland which can be found on Flickr Commons. Taken in September 1910, the photograph shows the offices of the London & North Western Railway Company on The Quay, Waterford, Ireland. Back in the days when I would work for a living, I was a frequent passenger on that advertised railway route which linked "all the principal towns of England and Scotland" with Ireland via Holyhead and Dublin. Even though the old steamboat ferries had been replaced by high-speed catamarans, there was still a slightly sepia feeling about sailing across the Irish Sea. If you are looking for a theme for Sepia Saturday 92 (post your posts on or around Saturday the 17 September 2011) there is a suitcase full in the above image : travel, ships, railways, holidays, shops, Ireland or even hand-carts left leaning against a back street wall. But remember, you don't have to stay on theme (I don't, so why should you!), just pack your digital suitcase with anything a little old and quirky and give us a treat.

SEPIA SATURDAYis a weekly meme which encourages bloggers to publish and share old images and photographs. All that is required is for contributors to post an old image (it doesn't have to be in sepia) and provide a few words in explanation. If you could provide a link back to the Sepia Saturday Blog and visit as many of the other contributors as you can, it would also be appreciated. There is no weekly theme, as such, but some people like to use the archive image published with the weekly call as a kind of theme. There is no requirement to adopt such an approach : the choice of image is entirely up to you. Once you have published your Sepia Saturday post, add a link to that post to the Linky List published each week and leave a comment to let everyone know you are joining in.

26 comments:

Sorry it is a little late going up - I know how you themers out there like plenty of time to search through your collections. Like the London and North Western Railway Company, I will try to be on time next week.

I am completely off theme this week unless you could consider that people need to walk this street to get to a train station. That is far fetched, I know, but I am proud I finally did something I wanted to do for a long time, now the picture is framed and hung, I am a happy girl.....

Not on theme unless you consider that many of the thousands of migrants to Detroit in the early 1900s came by train. I look at the lives of my family and their doctors and how racism affected them in Detroit during the 1920s.

First time participation -though I love trains and train journeys but my contribution is quite different.Hope it will be accepted.Great site and great work presented .Wonderful to preserve national traditions and family history.http://poeticocean.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-response-to-sepia-saturday92saturday.html

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.